Before how Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin got their kids into college, Jared Kushner somehow gained admission to Harvard.
In the wake of the wild roller coaster of a college admissions scandal, people are talking about another lucky rich kid: Jared Kushner. Jared Corey Kushner, to be precise . Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Ivanka Trump’s husband, and real estate heir, is now apparently under scrutiny again for just how he managed to get into Harvard 20 years ago.
In 2006, ProPublica editor Daniel Golden stumbled on Kushner’s admission while writing a book about how wealthy donors to elite colleges routinely get their kids who otherwise wouldn’t make the cut into those schools. While investigating Harvard’s Committee on University Resources, a.k.a. donors, for The Price of Admission, Golden discovered that both Kushner’s parents, Charles and Seryl, were members.
Related Video: Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner's Road to RomanceGolden told Vogue that he wasn’t totally shocked by the latest cheating scandal that swept up a few people even more famous than Jared Kushner, but “it takes the practices that I wrote about to another level.
As we know, after Harvard Kushner’s career was buoyed by another engine of American “meritocracy”: nepotism, through his wife, Ivanka Trump, with whom he was appointed White House advisor . He’s made criminal justice his pet issue there, in honor of Charles Kushner going to prison in 2005 for tax violations, illegal campaign donations, and retaliating against a witness. But putting people who have no business being there into positions of power has some annoying complications, apparently.
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